Today we received a letter from the Immigration Office stating that your visa is ready. They have sent their approval to the Dutch Embassy or General Consulate in your country. Please contact them to make sure that your MVV visa is ready at the Dutch Embassy Jakarta, Indonesia. See for more information the website:http://www.mfa.nl/jak

If you want a multiple entry visa, please apply at the Embassy or General Consulate for a D+C type visa (a MVV visa together with a tourist (Schengen) visa for three months). If you go to the Embassy or General Consulate please take the attached insurance letter with you to make sure that you will receive your MVV visa. Unfortunately we can’t send the individual IPS insurance because it’s not available yet, we will receive it a few days before you arrive in the Netherlands from the IPS insurance company.

TU Delft has already paid for your MVV visa, so you don’t have to pay at the Dutch Embassy or General Consulate.

We would like to know in advance when you expect to arrive in the Netherlands and therefore kindly request to give us your complete flight details: Flight Company, flight number and date of arrival. As we have arranged scheduled days on 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August, we need this information in order to meet you at Schiphol airport.

First, I would like to introduce myself first. My name is RAI, one of HSP Huygens recipients for 2008.

Today I have received email from TU Delft that stated that my visa (MVV) is ready (please see the email in the bottom part). I would like to know whether my visa is ready at the Dutch Embassy, Jakarta.

I have several questions for getting the visa. What are the documents that I need to bring? How long does it takes to apply for D+C visa? What is working time for visa application? Do I have to come by myself of can someone represents me?

I have tried to contact Consular Affairs and Visa secretariat (+62 21 524-1049) few moments ago, but no one is pick up the phone. I also contact your embassy number (+62-21-525-1515) but no answer too. Is there any way to reach the embassy?

You will have to apply in person to collect your MVV by making an appointment with our appointmentline 021-5271904 or by sending email to jak-visa@minbuza.nl

Documents needed: valid passport, photocopy of page 2-3 from your passport, 1 coloured passportphotograph 4×6, an applicationform is available at this Embassy.

When you arrive in Holland you will have to apply for your residence permit (VVR or VTV). This VVR will not directly be issued. According to the IND this process will take max. 6 months. Maybe for students it will be faster.

MVV D means during the process of your VVR you may not travel out and into Holland again. Single entry. This is only during the process of your VVR, if this permit is ready you are allowed to travel out and into Holland again whenever you like. Issue MVV will take 2 days.

MVV D+C, is the combination visa, advised by your school. This kind of visa means that during the process of your VVR you are allowed to travel out and into Holland again the first 3 months of your stay. So the C part will take 3 months, after that period the D part continues.

Issue of this kind of visa will take 8 workingdays from the moment we receive the application.

IMPORTANT! when collecting the visa after 8 workingdays you need to show us a travelinsurance which covers the Schengenarea (Europe) for the duration of 3 months (C-part) with minimal coverage € 30.000 or USD 45.000

An insurance only covering Holland is not valid. Please let this be clear, because sometimes the schools/university in Holland are not aware of this.

I finally also want to inform you that this Embassy is open from Monday – Thursday 09:00-16:00, Friday we are open from 09:00 – 14:00.

You have fulfilled your financial obligation to TU Delft with respect 2008 / 2009. We are pleased to inform you that we will be able to offer you housing for the upcoming academic year. DUWO housing organization will contact you directly by email in the second week of August 2008 regarding the details of your accommodation, including your address and rental fee.

In only a couple of weeks you will be arriving in the Netherlands to start your studies at TU Delft. Adapting to life in a foreign country might be difficult for you and therefore TU Delft has decided to literally help you on your way during the registration days (25-29 August).

If you have done some research on the Netherlands already you will have noticed that the bicycle is a very important mode of transport, especially for those who cannot afford or do not need a car, or only have to travel small distances. You may also have discovered that the bigger part of the cyclist community consists of students and that almost every student in Delft and indeed in the whole of the Netherlands owns a bicycle. It is fair to say a bike is a necessity for almost all students.

During the registration days TU Delft and Leuftink Bicycles will give you the opportunity to buy a bicycle. All the bicycles on display will be second hand and very affordable. You will also be able to buy accessories for your bike (e.g. lights, extra locks, etc). Overall, you can count on scoring a bike and everything you need to go with it for approximately € 150,-.

Of course this event will not be held merely for the profit of TU Delft or Leuftink Bicycles. Ten percent of the profit Leuftink Bicycles will make will be doubled by TU Delft and then donated to SOS Kinderdorpen, a charity fund that strives to give orphaned and abandoned children everywhere a loving home.

Netherlands Education Support Office (Neso) is a non-profit organization funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education. Neso Indonesia is the representative office of NUFFIC, the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education. Neso is the official representative in Indonesia for all matters concerning Dutch higher education and promotes and provides information on more than 1300 study programs taught in English in the Netherlands. Neso also initiates and facilitates institutional cooperation between Indonesian and Dutch universities and offers on behalf of the Dutch Government scholarships to about 200 Indonesians every year.

I would like to ask a question regarding the visa. My visa is scheduled to be finished 29th of July 2008 (today), but this morning I get phone call from Dutch Embassy in Jakarta that my visa is not ready yet and the collection visa date is delayed to Tuesday, August 5th 2008.

I would like to know is it possible to send my travel schedule after 1st of August 2008? Is it fine to book flight before my visa is collected? I have read not to book flight before your visa is collected.

Netherlands Education Support Office (Neso) is a non-profit organization funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education. NesoIndonesia is the representative office of NUFFIC, the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education.Neso is the official representative in Indonesia for all matters concerning Dutch higher education and promotes and provides information on more than 1300 study programs taught in English in the Netherlands. Neso also initiates and facilitates institutional cooperation between Indonesian and Dutch universities and offers on behalf of the Dutch Government scholarships to about 200 Indonesians every year.

You can by exception provide us with your travel information before August 7. If by then you are still not certain of your travel plans, please provide us with the information you have at that time, even if it has not yet been confirmed.

Summerschool starts 25 August, but do not forget you have to arrive in the Netherlands BEFORE this date.

This email is a reminder for all students to fill in the travel schedule
on the TU Delft website. We need your travel information in order for us
to plan the Schiphol shuttle service and make a registration schedule
for the introduction days.

You are to submit the travel schedule before 5 August 2008. Travel
schedules submitted after this deadline will not be accepted.

I would like to inform you that we have received your payment and scholarship letter; we will apply for your visa today.

We will notify you as soon as the visa is ready. This might take up to 4 weeks. Please do not email us how the visa application is going, because we can not speed up the process, it is already the fastest procedure.

Soon we will be happy to welcome you at TU Delft and the University is looking forward to that! From the international marketing department, we wish you a safe trip and a marvellous start with us soon in Delft.

Before you leave, NESO (Netherlands Education Support Office) Indonesia is inviting you for a special pre-departure briefing the 2nd of August at their office in Jakarta.

Please read the invitation and reply to one of E-mailaddresses you find underneath (not to me…)!

Best regards,

Pieke Hoekstra

Manager International marketing

INVITATIONPre-departure Briefing

Neso Indonesia will organize a pre-departure briefing event for Indonesian students who are going to pursue their bachelor, master, short courses or PhD degree program in the Netherlands .

The pre-departure briefing will provide the students with general information about living and studying in Holland , how to deal with culture shock, and other practical information from alumni who will represent the Dutch Higher Education Institutions.